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Chapter 259 Holding the Emperor hostage
The eighth batch of servants, except for three hundred people who are still continuing their training, are preparing to be deployed to various armies in the future.
The others have been reorganized into firearms battalions, and they are fully equipped with weapons.
The daily task is to train, train and train again, reload, shoot and train formations.
No one is allowed to be disturbed even within a radius of several miles. In name, this is the training place for the Sixth Prince's servant team, but no one cares.
After all, everyone knows that the prince is always training a group of little brats, and everyone thinks it's just like playing house.
Most of the 1,000 people in the ninth phase were also training outside the city and were assigned to a special military camp.
They have also received several months of training and are now much more formalized.
Similarly, the base sent the tenth batch of book boys, also a thousand people, and among them there were multiple reading seeds from both sides.
The book boy is a good seedling and has always been valued by Ning Yi.
Either a batch was sent to the Intelligence Department, or they were sent to the base to train artillery, and even a lot were selected from the Firearms Battalion.
They have a high cultural foundation, so they are quick to learn other aspects.
Unlike some illiterate servants who need to be reeducated, this is not all. A group of servants who were sent to the base early on will also follow a group of soldiers to learn culture every day.
Most of these highly educated, well-behaved, and highly conscious servants served as cultural instructors and chiefs of staff in the army. They also often gave brainwashing lessons to the soldiers, which helped Ning Yi better control the army.
Therefore, Ning Yi has a better attitude towards them and has higher expectations.
The head of the Intelligence Department came over to report: "Your Highness, this tenth class has been training at the base for over a month and has learned all the basic military laws and regulations."
"Only half of the eleventh batch has arrived. The remaining half will arrive in half a month. They are all selected from the refugees at the border."
Ning Yi nodded and said with satisfaction, "That's great. I believe that before long, this prince's army will no longer be short of officers."
His army was controlled by a group of servants trained by himself.
Only in this way can the army obey orders.
As for the intelligence department, the caravans from all over the country make money while contacting intelligence points in various places, and also collect various necessary materials and orphans and servants.
Ning Yi didn't expect the Intelligence Department to make money for him. The money earned by his own caravans was just enough for them to operate.
After all, the strongholds set up by various intelligence agencies all cost money.
They also have to inquire about various kinds of information, bribe, spy, and even kidnap, all of which cost money like water.
With this intelligence department, many things became much easier for Ning Yi.
Moreover, he has stuffed a lot of students he values in there. The shopkeeper is in charge of the overall situation. Once there is a problem, it will be dealt with immediately.
Ning Yi will have someone arrange for the tenth batch of servants to be assigned to his residence and will personally teach them for a period of time.
This is also to bring these servants closer together and let them know who they should be loyal to.
When it comes to winning people's hearts, Ning Yi has plenty of ways.
However, in order to stabilize the army, the remaining hundreds of servants from the eighth term had to be transferred into the army in advance.
He even stuffed these three hundred servants into the Beijing camp, which he had deliberately left unreorganized.
He acted as a team leader, and then called on a group of injured servants to act as captains. Even the commanders that the emperor thought were good were already completely controlled by the Intelligence Department.
In name, they were loyal to Emperor Wu, but in reality, the entire army had completely become the Sixth Prince's troops.
If Ning Yi didn't take advantage of the period of controlling the Jingying to swallow up another Jingying, he would feel that he was at a great disadvantage.
Moreover, it was the reorganized Yongying Battalion, and the reason they ate it was to protect the base.
Make it more difficult for others to discover problems with the base.
With the three Beijing camps in hand, on the surface, more than 15,000 soldiers were under Ning Yi's control, so he naturally felt much more relieved.
Qin Haifeng also laughed and said: "Your Highness, if the hundreds of thousands of Beijing troops were under our control, wouldn't it be even better?"
Ning Yi shook his head slightly: "It's not that simple."
"After all, the Beijing Camp still has over 100,000 soldiers, especially those newly arrived Northwestern Cavalry and Southern Infantry. They are difficult to control."
"If anything goes wrong, the old emperor will find out. Then all our efforts will be in vain and even worse."
The leader of the Yongying Camp had already been one of their men, which was why they were able to capture him so quickly.
Even the old soldiers inside were driven away all at once, using the emperor's order for reorganization as an excuse to no longer need to be supported.
All the new recruits were selected from the forced soldiers of Hushan Pass.
On the surface, Ning Yi was carrying out a formal reorganization and submitted it to the Ministry of War for confirmation. There were no problems.
Even Yang Long didn't notice anything wrong. After all, grassroots military officers were not within his observation range.
After the conquest of the Beijing Camp, even if the old emperor took back the command in the future, it would have little to do with Ning Yi.
He doesn't need to worry about the rest. He just needs to let others train them according to his wishes.
Take a walk around and observe from time to time, and personally watch when the military salaries are distributed. This way, you can better win over the soldiers' hearts.
Ning Yi understood that it was not so easy to compete with the old emperor in seizing military power. The first step was to take back the military power of the Beijing Camp.
Then they would target the Imperial Guards. Once the Imperial Guards were included in the conspiracy, they would completely control the palace.
The old emperor is a tiger in a cage.
Now Ning Yi has begun to target the 30,000 cavalry in the northwest. How can he gather these 30,000 cavalry into his hands?
Of course, every time he distributed military pay, he would go there in person and supervise the distribution of pay to these cavalrymen.
Of course, he would not forget Yu Shengfei, the deputy commander of the Northwest, and a group of cavalry generals, and he would give them a lot more one by one, which would be enough to make them happy.
Everyone praised the Sixth Prince for being so generous that he never deducted any money from the military pay and even gave more.
As for military rations, they were all available to the soldiers to eat as much as they wanted, ensuring that they were well fed and well-watered before going to the battlefield.
But no matter how well Ning Yi performed, they would never follow Ning Yi to kidnap the emperor.
Therefore, Ning Yi needs a major battle to reorganize the 30,000 cavalry of the Northwest Army so that he can completely control them.
And the opportunity for a major war is not far away, that is the invasion of barbarians.
Once the barbarians break through the border and move south, it will be time for him to go to the battlefield.
And these 30,000 cavalrymen cannot avoid going to the battlefield, which means it is time for Ning Yi to completely control them.
As for the 30,000 elite southern infantry, Ning Yi only distributed military supplies, rations, and salaries to them, and trained them well, but he was too lazy to have a heart-to-heart with them.
To Ning Yi, these people were just cannon fodder ready to go to the battlefield at any time.
Who made so many old emperors so loyal? Since they are not on the same page with him, Ning Yi doesn't care.
Of course, on the surface, Ning Yi is impartial and always ensures that they have sufficient military supplies of all kinds, and no one has any objections.